"These vouchers will be used by veterans that the VA finds through street outreach or through other homeless programs. The program is targeted for veterans who are chronically homeless, which means veterans who have been living on the streets or in a shelter or in an uninhabitable place for one year or more continuously or they’ve had four episodes of homelessness in the past three years.”

Twomey says the program will provide 50 more vouchers in the Omaha metro area and an additional 10 vouchers in the Lincoln area.

She says on any given night, there are a couple of hundred homeless veterans in Nebraska.